WORK FOR 10,000 MEN
BUILDERS MAKE OFFER TO PREMIER END OF STRIKE SOUGHT Reed. IX a.m. MELBOURNE, Today. Appealing to the Premier, Sir William McPherson, to settle the dispute as it affected the building industry, a deputation from the Melbourne Master Builders’ Association gave assurances that if the men were willing to return to work under a guarantee of continuity of service, the association would undertake to find employment for 10,000 builders’ operatives on Monday. This number represents an increase of 25 per cent, on the number employed before the trouble began. It was also indicated that there weis a likelihood that work would be found tor an additional 4,000 within a week. At Sydney three more men were yesterday convicted of assaulting volunteer timber workers. They were sentenced at the Newtown Court to six months’ imprisonment.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 660, 11 May 1929, Page 9
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137WORK FOR 10,000 MEN Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 660, 11 May 1929, Page 9
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